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Thus, said My Lord Yahweh, of hosts, Come go in unto this steward, Unto Shebna, who is over the house:

What doest thou here? And whom hast thou here? That thou hast hewn for thyself here a sepulchre, - As one hewing on high his sepulchre, Cutting out in the cliff a habitation for himself?

Lo! Yahweh, is about to hurl thee, with a hurl, O mighty man, - And roll thee with a roll;

He will, toss, thee, with a toss, like a ball, into a country wide on both hands, - There, shalt thou die, And there shall thy glorious chariots be the contempt of the house of thy lord.

Thus will I thrust thee out from thine office, - And from thy station, shall one tear thee down.

And it shall come to pass in that day, That I will call for my servant, for Eliakim son of Hilkiah,

And will clothe him with thy tunic And with thy girdle, will I gird him, And thine authority, will I deliver into his hand, - So shall he become a father To the inhabitant of Jerusalem and To the house of Judah.

And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, - And he shall open and none shall shut, And shut and none shall open;

And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, - And he shall become a throne of glory, to the house of his father;

And they shall hang upon him all the weight of his fathers house - The offshoots and the side-twigs - All the small vessels, Both the cups and all the jugs

In that day, - Declareth Yahweh of hosts Shall the peg, give way, that was fastened in a sure place, - Yea it shall be cut off and fall And the burden that was upon it shall perish, For, Yahweh, hath spoken!